'People are not asking for Yakub's acquittal, but commuting his death sentence'

July 27, 2015 17:57

"Leave B Raman aside, 50 eminent personalities have written about commuting his death sentence. Even a retired judge of the Supreme Court has written about it."

Shyam Keswani was the first lawyer to defend 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, whose appeal for commuting his death sentence is scheduled for hearing in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 28.

Keswani, speaks about the case to Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com. Read

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